I am searching for a way to prevent shutdown/standby when tvheadend (or vdr) is currently recording.
What I found until now is
Prevent shutdown when rsnapshot is running:
Which I don't like because ...

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 from wubi application with Windows 7 as partition. I was using ubuntu for some time. After that it freezes for some time and I shut it down by long press on the power button. ...

I currently am developing a custom Ubuntu dist. that runs a dedicated Kiosk app upon boot. I would like an easy method to shutdown from inside the Kiosk app, but I am currently at a standstill at what ...

My Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution was working perfectly until a few hours ago. When I select 'shutdown' from the power icon at the top right corner, the system logs me out and from the login screen. ...

I installed Ubuntu 14.10 using usb installer on my laptop. The only issue with it is it won't shutdown or reboot at all. The system shows few messages and tries to kill all the processes but fails and ...

Today in class, the teacher asked us to say different ways to shutdown/reboot,etc. the system.
I said "poweroff" and I though that it was probably actually a symbolic link to "shutdown" or "halt".
We ...

I have an old laptop (Toshiba satellite a100).
I installed Xubuntu 10.04 on it, sound worked, PC was shutting down properly.
However, I could not install some programs I wanted (WPS office) because ...

Sorry, relatively new to Linux and stuff. The shutdown function just causes it to run the loading icon until the battery of my laptop dies. Tried sudo shutdown -P now and that didn't work either. Any ...

The System is shutting down unexpectly without any reason
just always chrome is running with the teminal .
what must i do to prevent that ??
ubuuntu 14.10
labtop packard bell tn36
iam new at linux.
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I tried following all of the answers to Which log will tell me why my computer shut down? but all I did was find a messages.1 file which had old messages (3 month old). Other than I found the logs of ...

Only 2 or 3 dots (out of five) light up before the system shuts down. Applications such as Firefox are not closed properly, as I find out upon next start (asks to recover previous session). I suspect ...

After updating the kernel of my Ubuntu Server 14.04 from 3.2 to 3.13 (generic-lts-trusty) it seems to be impossible to shutdown (power down) the server from the command line. Upon shutdown -P 0 or any ...

This is again another problem with my Late 2006 iMac that I am in the process of turning into a Ubuntu machine with Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.
So a few weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on this iMac, ...

I have Ubuntu 14.04.2 installed on Lenovo Flex 2 laptop. My problem is that whenever I select shutdown from the menu, the laptop restarts instead of completely shutting down.
Any idea why this might ...

When I execute shutdown and restart from the top panel or sudo shutdown -h/ sudo shutdown -r, everything goes fine until the last line "Will halt now", then it hangs, I've had to hold the power button ...

Setup:
I'm running 14.10 Desktop x64 on an E8500.
It's running kernel 3.19 from here, but also had similar problems with earlier kernels.
The FS is btrfs.
I'm using several CIFS mounts.
I have WINE ...

lately I have been asked (only a single time) to type my administrator password in order to shut down my system. Before that, I was unable to disable networking (the buttons for enable/disable wifi ...

I have found that when I click the shutdown button when logged into a normal user account that once it has terminated all running processes and it says something about a modem shutting down, it can ...

In Precise, when I clicked on "Shut Down" from the gear menu, it would shut things down in an orderly manner. E.g. it would tell processes to shut down, and would let me know if e.g. emacs was still ...

I'm making a computer like an arcade machine with an academic game. I'm using Xsession to replace the desktop by an application. It's working fine. But when I go out from the game it returns to the ...